Ruby is for Linux and Mac Users
admin — Mon, 10/19/2009 - 02:51
This is an important post, friends. You cannot use Windows if you want to be a cool Ruby programmer. Someone said it is an "exercise in futility" to even try. He is seriously right.
Please consider reading the Free Ubuntu ebook if you are new to Linux. Don't worry it's been over 2 years and I am still newbie to Linux. LOL.
Ubuntu Jaunty is a stable release but in 10 days, Karmic Koala will be released. I always choose 32-bit option because I really don't have too many resources to run 64-bit.
Check this out:
We nearly have the same setup except that I use Songbird as my music player and I still use Adobe products via Windows XP on VirtualBox for designing. Google has funded the effort to make Adobe products work with Wine (for running Windows apps on Linux) but I personally feel that is best to go with what already works at the moment.
RUBYISTS GUIDE TO LINUX DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
sudo apt-get install git-core gitk
This will install GIT and the GUI tool for Git. He had a typo on his post.
Reading through the blog post, we have the same setup. I also use GMate. I do not use MYSQL GUI tools. I use PHPMYADMIN. Overall, I think it is a good guide.
This guide also never failed for me:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server
We may use nginx server for production but it's fine to use Apache2 for development.